Workshops & Events
Workshops & Events
Events |
Past Workshops & Events
Writing Meaningful Student Learning Outcomes for Your Program
Does your program have meaningful and measurable student learning outcomes? Have you made changes to your program or are you developing a new program? Whether you are considering revising your current student learning outcomes or are writing them for the first time, this workshop is for you. Writing Meaningful Student Learning Outcomes for Your Program will provide a simple three-step guide for writing student learning outcomes, share helpful hints, and discuss the benefits of student learning outcomes for faculty and students. Participants will be given time to try out these techniques by writing their own learning outcomes.
Thursday, February 14, 2013 during Convo Hour in the Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030). Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to
Assessment@lmu.edu or call 310.258.2628.
Unleashing the Power of Rubrics
Rubrics are a powerful tool that can help you understand and promote student learning while saving you time. Unleashing the Power of Rubrics will present a 5-step process for creating rubrics, share ideas for how to enhance student learning with rubrics, and provide tips for speedily and successfully capturing what your students have learned.
As part of the workshop, participants will be given time to begin building a rubric. Bring along a description of an assignment so you can get started on you own rubric.
Thursday, March 14, 2013 from 12:15pm - 1:30pm in the Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030). Lunch will be included. Please RSVP to Assessment@lmu.edu or call 310.258.2628.
Past Workshops & Events
If you would like a copy of a past presentation, please contact Laura Massa, Director of Assessment, at
lmassa1@lmu.edu.
Unleashing the Power of Rubrics
Rubrics are a powerful tool that can help you understand and promote student learning while saving you time. Unleashing the Power of Rubrics will present a 5-step process for creating rubrics, share ideas for how to enhance student learning with rubrics, and provide tips for speedily and successfully capturing what your students have learned.
As part of the workshop, participants will be given time to begin building a rubric. Bring along a description of an assignment so you can get started on you own rubric.
Thursday, November 8, 2012 from 12:15pm - 1:30pm in the Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030). Lunch will be included. Please RSVP to Assessment@lmu.edu or call 310.258.2628.
Unlocking Evidence of Student Learning with EXCEL
Excel is a fantastic tool for unlocking evidence of student learning. Designed for Excel beginners and experts alike, this hands-on workshop will teach you some quick and painless ways to use Excel to find what student work, survey data, and other evidence you’ve collected indicates about student learning in your course or program.
Friday, October 19 from 2:30pm – 3:30pm in the William H. Hannon Library, Room 118.
Unleashing the Power of Rubrics
Rubrics are a powerful tool that can help you understand and promote student learning while saving you time. Unleashing the Power of Rubrics will present a 5-step process for creating rubrics, share ideas for how to enhance student learning with rubrics, and provide tips for speedily and successfully capturing what your students have learned.
As part of the workshop, participants will be given time to begin building a rubric. Bring along a description of an assignment so you can get started on your own rubric.
Thursday, April 12, 2012 from 12:15pm – 1:30pm in the Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030). Lunch will be included.
Mapping & Measuring: 1 Workshop, 2 Tools for Improving Learning
Understanding both how and how well your students learn is a key step toward improving learning. In this workshop we’ll cover two tools to help you do just that:
- Mapping: maps help you understand the experiences that contribute to student learning in your program.
- Measuring: there are many ways to measure learning. We’ll review properties of good measurement techniques and provide an overview of the different types of measures.
Thursday, March 15, 2012 from 12:15pm – 1:30pm in the Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030). Lunch will be included.
Evidence to Action: Making Informed Changes to Improve Student Learning
As an educator, you are constantly observing the effects of your approaches in the classroom, taking note of what works and what doesn’t, and adjusting your methods accordingly.
This workshop will show you how to apply this model for improvement in a strategic way at the program level – to use evidence from student work and surveys to make effective modifications within a realistic timeframe.
Thursday, February 16, 2012 from 12:15pm – 1:30pm IN THE Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030). Lunch will be included.
Unleashing the Power of Rubrics
Rubrics are a powerful tool that can help you understand and promote student learning while saving you time. Unleashing the Power of Rubrics will present a 5-step process for creating rubrics, share ideas for how to enhance student learning with rubrics, and provide tips for speedily and successfully capturing what your students have learned.
As part of the workshop, participants will be given time to begin building a rubric. Bring along a description of an assignment so you can get started on your own rubric.
Thursday, November 17th, 2011 from 12:15pm - 1:30pm in the Center for Teaching Excellence. (UH3030). Lunch will be included.
Excel for Assessment 101: Using Excel to Manage and Make Sense of Evidence of Student Learning
A Quantitative and Qualitative Skills Workshop (QQSW) Series Event
You’ve collected the evidence of student learning. What’s next?
In Excel for Assessment 101 you’ll learn how to transform scored rubrics, completed surveys, exam responses, and more, into meaningful assessment data.
We will guide you through the basics of using Microsoft Excel for data management and analysis, and give you the opportunity to work hands-on with sample data.
Friday, November 4th, 2011 from 2:00pm - 3:30pm in the William H. Hannon Library, Room 118.
OPEN HOUSE - The Offices of Institutional Research, Assessment and Decision Support Invite you to our New Offices in Xavier Hall
Come join us for an Open House to celebrate our move to the 1st floor of Xavier Hall! Find out what our offices do and what we can do to help you.
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011 from 3:00 - 5:00pm. Refreshments served in Xavier Hall, Conference Rm 111.
Meaningful & Manageable Assessment: THE FACULTY PERSPECTIVE
Hear your faculty colleagues tell the inside story on leading program assessment. Our faculty panel includes representatives from four dimensions of LMU's diverse campus:
- Vanessa Newell representing creative arts
- Mónica Cabrera representing liberal arts
- Suzanne Larson representing math and science
- Franca Dell'Olio representing graduate and professional studies
A few topics that this panel will address include:
- Perspectives on the added value of assessment
- Ways to make assessment relevant and meaningful to your work
- Strategies and challenges for implementing assessment activities
Our faculty panel will facilitate a conversation. Audience members are encouraged to bring questions.
Thursday, April 14th, 2011 from 12:15pm - 1:30pm in the Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030). Lunch will be included.
Partnering with the Library and Academic Resource Center to Improve Student Learning
This workshop follows up on Laura Massa's "Closing the Loop: Assessing LMU's Undergraduate Learning Outcomes" presentation by highlighting existing avenues of support on campus. Both the William H. Hannon Library and the Academic Resource Center provide a great number of resources that can help you improve student learning in your program or academic department.
Susan Gardner, Head of Reference, and Dr. La'Tonya Rease Miles, ARC Director, will discuss services and innovative partnership opportunities to help you and your students meet LMU's Undergraduate Learning Outcomes, especially:
Written and Oral Communication
Creative and Critical Thinking
Respect for Others
Thursday, March 17th, 2011 from 12:15pm - 1:30pm in the Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030).
Writing Meaningful Student Learning Outcomes for Your Program
Does your program have meaningful and measurable student learning outcomes? Have you made changes to your program or are you developing a new program? Whether you are considering revising your current student learning outcomes or are writing them for the first time, this workshop is for you. Writing Meaningful Student Learning Outcomes for Your Program will provide a simple three-step guide for writing student learning outcomes, share helpful hints, and discuss the benefits of student learning outcomes for faculty and students. Participants will be given time to try out these techniques by writing their own learning outcomes.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 during Convo Hour in the Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030).
Scoring Rubrics Made Simple
Is your department struggling to find meaningful and manageable ways of assessing student learning? Have you thought of scoring rubrics but didn't know where to start?
Scoring Rubrics Made Simple will present a step-by-step guide for how to create rubrics, discuss some of the benefits of rubrics, and share ideas for how to use rubrics for the assessment of learning outcomes in your program.
Thursday, November 11, 2010 during Convo Hour in the Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030). Lunch will be included.
Excel for Assessment 101: Using Excel to Manage and Make Sense of Evidence of Student Learning
You've collected the evidence of student learning. What's next? In Excel for Assessment 101 you'll learn how to transform scored rubrics, completed surveys, exam responses, and more, into meaningful assessment data. We will guide you through the basics of using Microsoft Excel for data management and analysis, and give you the opportunity to work hands-on with sample data.
Thursday, November 4, 2010 from 2:30pm - 3:30pm in the Faculty Innovation Center, William H. Hannon Library.
What Do Students Think They’ve Learned? How to Design an Assessment Survey to Find Out
Surveys can be used to collect all types of information. But how do you design a survey to collect evidence of student learning?
In this workshop, you will learn how to design an assessment survey to find out what your students think they’ve learned in your program. This workshop will also help you understand the differences between assessment surveys and other surveys, the pros and cons of conducting an assessment survey, and familiarize you with the many survey resources available on campus.
We will practice writing survey questions during the workshop. Consider bringing your program’s learning outcomes to help you start developing a survey for your own program. Survey design is more fun and effective when done with a partner or small committee, so we encourage you to bring a colleague or two with you.
Thursday, October 21 during Convo hour in the Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030). Lunch will be included.
Assessment Poster Session
The Assessment Poster Session is part of the 4th annual Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Showcase Week . Innovative assessment plans developed by the participants in the LMU Summer Assessment Workshop will be presented. Participating programs include: Accounting, Computer Science, Film & TV Studies, History, Mechanical Engineering, Recording Arts and Sociology.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm in University Hall, 3rd Floor, outside of Suite 3000.
Developing an Assessment Plan for Your Program (That's Meaningful & Manageable)
A successful assessment process begins with an effective plan. This workshop will provide guidelines for designing an assessment plan for your program. We will discuss the essential components of a plan, ways to document your plan, and share ideas for keeping assessment both meaningful and manageable.
Tuesday, September 21 during Convo hour in the Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030). Lunch will be included.
Step-by-Step Survey Design: A Practical Guide to Designing Your Survey
Thinking of conducting a survey? With careful planning and well-crafted design, a survey can be a powerful and insightful tool. But how do you get started?
This workshop will introduce you to the basic steps of designing a survey. You will also learn about ways to encourage responses, survey ethics and the Institutional Review Board, and designing your survey so that the results are easy to analyze and use.
Monday, April 12 from 12:00 - 1:00 in the Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030).
Scoring Rubrics Made Simple
Is your department struggling to find meaningful and manageable ways of assessing student learning? Have you thought of scoring rubrics but didn’t know where to start?
Scoring Rubrics Made Simple will present a step-by-step guide for how to create rubrics, discuss some of the benefits of rubrics, and share ideas for how to use rubrics for the assessment of learning outcomes in your program.
Tuesday, April 20 during Convo hour in the Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030).
Developing an Assessment Plan for Your Program (That's Meaningful & Manageable)
A successful assessment process begins with an effective plan. This workshop provided guidelines for designing an assessment plan for your program. We discussed the essential components of a plan, ways to document your plan, and share ideas for keeping assessment both meaningful and manageable.
Thursday, March 11 from 12:15 - 1:15 pm in the Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030).
Assessment Resource Showcase & Reception
Did you know that LMU offers a variety of resources to support programs in their efforts to understand and improve student learning?
The Assessment Resource Showcase and Reception highlighted the resources available to programs at any stage in the assessment cycle. Participants met the assessment staff, discovered online resources, learned about opportunities for assessment funding, and more.
Wednesday, October 7 from 3:30 to 5:30 in the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), with brief presentations every half-hour.
Assessment Poster Session
The Assessment Poster Session is part of the 3rd annual Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Showcase Week . The innovative assessment plans developed by the participants in the LMU Summer Assessment Workshop were presented. Participating programs included: African American Studies, Animation, Art History, Civil Engineering, Liberal Studies, Marketing, and Studio Arts.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm in University Hall, 3rd Floor, outside of Suite 3000.
How Do You Determine What Your Students are Learning? An Overview of Types of Assessment Measures
How will you determine if students in your program are achieving the learning outcomes? There are many different ways to measure student learning in your program. This workshop helped participants to make informed choices about the types of measures that would make sense in their program by providing an overview of different types of measures, including the pros and cons of each, and by presenting the properties of good measurement techniques.
Thursday, April 2, 2009 from 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm in The Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030).
Getting to Know Our First Year Lions: Results from the 2008 CIRP Freshman Survey
The CIRP Freshman Survey is one of the most comprehensive surveys of first-year college students in the nation. It provides us with a portrait of our entering class, highlighting their background, opinions, and expectations of college life. In short, it’s a snapshot into the lives of our unique and diverse first-year lions.
This presentation provided a summary of the 2008 CIRP Freshman Survey data.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 & Thursday, March 26, 2009 from 3:15pm - 4:15pm in The Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030).
Curriculum Mapping 101: Understanding the Path to Student Learning in Your Program
Curriculum maps are one of the simplest yet most essential tools in the process of understanding the factors that contribute to student learning in your program. This workshop helped to get participants started on their program’s curriculum map by providing a map template and approaches to completing it. Participants were also given time to begin a curriculum map for their program.
Attendees brought their program’s learning outcomes and curriculum. Curriculum mapping is more effective (and more fun) when worked on with a partner or a small committee. For this reason more than one person was encouraged to come from each program.
Thursday, March 5, 2009 from 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm in The Center for Teaching Excellence (UH 3030).
Improving Student Learning: An Introduction to Program Assessment
At LMU the primary purpose of assessment is improving student learning. This presentation showed the basic steps involved in using assessment to meet this purpose for your program or major. Also included in the presentation: an example of a program following the steps introduced, helpful hints, and a chance to ask your assessment questions.
Scoring Rubrics Made Simple
Is your department struggling to find meaningful and manageable ways of assessing student learning? Have you thought of scoring rubrics but didn’t know where to start?
Scoring Rubrics Made Simple presented a step-by-step guide for how to create rubrics, discuss some of the benefits of rubrics, and share ideas for how to use rubrics for the assessment of learning outcomes in your program.
Excel for Assessment 101: Using Excel to Manage and Make Sense of Evidence of Student Learning
You've collected the evidence of student learning. What's next? In Excel for Assessment 101 participants learned how to transform scored rubrics, completed surveys, exam responses, and more, into meaningful assessment data. They were guided through the basics of using Microsoft Excel for data management and analysis, and given the opportunity to work hands-on with sample data.
For more information on workshops, contact Laura Massa, Director or Assessment, at Ext. 86130 or lmassa1@lmu.edu .
Return to Top of Page